tasso even if intelligence. on monday china's top policy adviser is expected to respond to the political process it's pretty difficult british territory for markets the hong kong government and protesters refusing to budge this rally is unlikely to be the last sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. the death toll after an explosion in the afghan capital has risen to 20 and other 50 people including the president's running mates in the upcoming election were injured interior ministry says the attackers were targeting. office in a busy part of come to and it came on the 1st day of official campaigning for the presidential votes. but the weather up for you next then. baltimore bites back facing president donald trump under more pressure for his attack on a black congressman. also colombian champion the cyclist who has made history after

winning the tour de france. hello temperatures in eastern europe are as high as they will also run about the 30 mosques court humid i mean poland there's still a warning out for effectively a heatwave but digging into that hot weather this culture on this blue line which it brought in atlanta care about usually has to pick up some more from 2 suns to homes it did that in barcelona did that in parts of northern italy in the last day or so misses significant thunderstorms the temps drop isn't great but this is the disturbance to watch that's visit the position as it sits on sunday so he's the hot stuff that 30 plus not extreme is still quite warm or a less he would further west but lauren that wall from that goes up through the middle of the british isles but coming up close is. a very unusual looking feature

a summer storm big circulation. these are the more usual ones thunderstorms and it's going to be anyway through the balkans to remain here and then have to germany where you see the there's a cool breeze blowing down through moscow 14 degrees that'll eventually penetrate into ukraine money even drop temptress significantly but not by tuesday however look at that circulation over england cloud wind and rain in 21 degrees 25 in paris we did expect to see that in the middle of summer. a conflict that is now considered to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis how many would not all have to die this stock is hard says owner really for sale an investigation into how billions of euros are made from supplying arms to saudi arabia a leader of the coalition fighting

a war in the south the case is interesting to watch the amount of money involved yemen war profiteers on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera quick to mind all the top stories this hour at least 65 people have been killed in nigeria in a suspected boko haram attack on a funeral it happens near the northeastern city of might agree in borno state presidents mohammed bihari has ordered a military operation to hunt down those responsible. china's government is making rare public comments about weeks of mass protests in hong kong as follows another

nights of street battles police fired tear gas despairs protesters near the building but china's representatives in the city work. on. a gunman has been shot dead by police after he killed 3 people want a food festival in the u.s. state of california it happened in the city of gilroy center of san francisco another 15 people are injured. i rang a muslim refugees have refused offers for myanmar's diplomats to return home from bangladesh hundreds of thousands are living in camps after fleeing violin. from myanmar's military 2 years ago time to report some coaxes bizarre. they came to the camps in bangladesh to convince the hundreds of thousands of rohingya to return to me on march that country's government sent a 14 member high level delegation for the job but many refugees here say they're

not willing to go back without full citizenship and security guarantees definitely will not be considered. issue for us because we'll be granting them as an nationality of myanmar and then eventually we will be providing them with the id cards where there will no longer be the issue of race or the issue of the their citizenship but for the few him the refugees there seems to be a window of hope. we're very grateful to the bangladesh government if the letter was we'd like to return to the delegates told us they'll give us back our land and property however the vest majority of their own don't seems to know what was discussed in the meeting they came here looking for safety after me and mars army launched a crackdown that the u.n. has called an ethnic cleansing from which you know i understand that a delegation is headed to solve the crisis and i feel good about it but i don't

really know what they will say and discuss though several community leaders say me on mars delegation was unwilling to give citizenship to their anger even at the meeting me and most government has never recognised the rowing as a community often treating them as immigrants from bangladesh in response to a question asked by al-jazeera in regard to the citizenship issue this is what the representative maurice ministry of foreign affairs have to say of course according to the law that may not be entitled for the full fledged citizenship but they are entitled to naturalized citizenship. eventually their sons and daughters grandsons and daughters will be entitled citizenship full fledged citizenship nearly 2 years into the crisis there has not yet been any remarkable progress regarding their repatriation of nearly a 1000000 refugees living in what is now the world's largest refugee camp the

latest talk between i me on my delegation and community leaders for owning a refuge is here in cox's bazar have ended without any major breakthrough both side a grid dialogue should continue in an attempt to resolve critical issues still causing concern trenberth chaudhry al jazeera could apollo cox's bizarre jails that russian opposition leader alexina valmiki has been treated in hospital for severe facial swelling and rashes after suffering thought to be an allergic reaction the valley a prominent critic of president vladimir putin was ordered to spend 30 days behind bars after calling for an authorised government protests more than a 1000 people were detained at those demonstrations the family spokeswoman said he's never suffered such a reaction the fore. police in the us city of baltimore people rather in the city of baltimore have had by the president's following his condescending remarks

towards a black democratic congressman and that's a stretch he represents sometimes comments of sport widespread outbreak just specially from residents who have accused trump or feigned racist muslim georgeson as a story the president of the united states donald trump is the president of the entire united states but residents of baltimore maryland are angry trump has called their city quote a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess is a horrible president. and says he's racist and he's fraudulent. he's an embarrassment to what our country thinks that we stand for having been overseas and you know it makes me you know a bit embarrassed for the country trumps lampe baltimore an economically and socially diverse city near washington as part of an attack on its longtime congressman elijah cummings cummings leads the committee investigating the president's political and financial ties he's also criticized the president's

immigration policy called cummings corrupt and quote a brutal bully there is nothing racist and stating plainly what most people already know that a larger cummings has done a terrible job for the people of his district and of baltimore itself he also attacked the house speaker nancy pelosi the daughter of baltimore's former mayor on sunday the baltimore sun called the president quote the most dishonest man to ever occupy the oval office and said it's quote better to have a few rats and to be one the mayor also weighed in. we're not going to ignore anyone degrading. and this is like in the no one even the house is only black republican condemned trump's attack allies are cummings and chairman cummings is someone who i have worked with a closely on all kinds of legislation he is someone that cares passionately about

his community and has been working tirelessly on his entire adult life on behalf of his his country and his community and he is someone that he can defend himself a senior white house official defended the president's attack on cummings i understand why but that doesn't mean that it's racist the president is pushing back against what he sees as wrong it's how he's done in the past and he'll continue to do in the future but in baltimore the public's not having it because the downgrade everybody knows. he's the fix but the problem is that a downgrade. a message to the man who was supposed to be promoting unity as part of his job rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington. and donald trump's top spy chief is stepping down dan coats will resign as the director of national intelligence next month since being appointed by trump in 2017 counts is directly contradicted his boss several times as mike hanna reports. this was the moment that it would appear

most and good president trump flanked by soprano intelligence chiefs dan coats presents the annual worldwide threat assessment to the senate intelligence committee and essentially says that the basis for the president's enthusiastic endorsement of north korean good intentions is not just flawed but wrong we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain its w m d capabilities and is unlikely to completely give up its nuclear weapons and production capabilities because its leaders ultimately view the nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival. in response the president angrily tweeted that intelligence should go back to school and i think. you. know i disagree with things that they said i think on the way but time will prove that time will prove me right probably then an oval office meeting with the intelligence chiefs followed by this version of events and

they said that they were totally misquoted and they were totally it was taken out of context so what i deleted i'd suggest that you call them they said it was fake there so which frankly isn't surprised that this was not the 1st time they'd been disagreement the director of national intelligence repeatedly did mining the president's view that there was doubt about the level of russian involvement in u.s. politics and on at least one occasion visibly surprised that news coming from the white house we have some breaking news the white house has announced on twitter that lattimer putin is coming to the white house in the far him again i dan coats was the last national security figure left from the very 1st time cabinet and even though he had no intelligence background he'd earned bipartisan respect in congress with many messages of support in recent weeks d.n.i. dan coats is

a good friend to former senate colleague and leader of integrity who's always served our country well said senator susan collins i served on the joint economic committee with dan coats as representative done by a he was widely respected and trusted by everyone on both sides is a man of integrity but trump doesn't want integrity he wants people who tell him what he wants to hear and intil leaders who will agree that 2 plus 2 equals 5 and i beautiful spring it's unlikely that dan coats will read to children with his wife at another white house easter egg roll. it was a boy. if i was a girl and enjoyed disagreement with no consequence like the story i canna al-jazeera washington. now europe's highest active volcanoes pissing on a spectacular show for the people on the italian island of sicily a series of eruptions from mt etna lit up the sky and sent lava streaming down the

sides of the mountain now this might look here impressive but it's actually relatively minor atmos last major eruption some 27 years ago iraq's government is keen to get oil production soaring again and for good reason 90 percent of its revenue comes from its huge energy reserves but years of war and tension in the region are making it difficult to convince outsiders to invest as on a binge of aid reports from the new normal fields near their brain in border. these engineers are practicing how to respond to an emergency involving the hazardous h 2 s. guess. they work at the central processing facility of the mage known oil field in southern iraq what makes their operation unique is that after oil giant shell left iraqis took over and for the 1st time they were running oil and gas extraction on their own. after shell pulled out and 2018 bus for oil company

took charge with the same standards and criteria bus company in cooperation with other consulting companies also proved that it has the ability to manage much oil field despite the challenges that we face. one of those challenges a splitting from marshlands around the mage new and field this oil is below the nearly 5 metre high flood waters around the my mental risks mean new oil grid general will need to be elevated engineers say they have been able to reinforce dikes but one flooding could submerge their operation much new means crazy in arabic some say the name is in reference to the large amount of oil in one location the result of an estimated 38000000000 barrels this field produces 240000 barrels a day and that capacity is expected to go up to 450000 in 3 years the company says it's able to find investors even when the world is moving towards alternative

energy sources there is no and the risk for investment in iraq iraq is very respectful of government. and the company. even with a shortage in financing and 201-425-2050 here are committed to pay back all the investor. cost our budget within the. time when they invest when they buy and the cost back the payment of time theobald 0 in the state. of their main. a.r.g. for you. to fortify. the oil companies know that. iraq is coming out of years of war the recent crisis in the gulf increases risk and baghdad needs investment sources within the oil ministry told al jazeera that some oil companies want to use that to their advantage. names i don't want to mention names but.

i am a firm believer in 11 the relationship that come up to blackmail us and we don't want to twist their arms they're our partner it's we want to have good relations but on the other hand we are monitoring their activities are watching the costs will have managed to reduce the costs if you look now the cost per barrel you see their tours hiking up but the time was decreased iraq plans to expand its overall production to 5 and a half 1000000 barrels per day but as a member of the oil exporting countries of opec it has to reduce its oil output iraq's economy is hainje don't orlin faces a tough balancing act the government has to generate much needed revenue while abiding by opec agreements signed up in java down to the euro much noon or field near iraq's border with iran. colombian cyclist egon burnell has made history after being crammed into the $29000.00 tour de france champion the 22 year old is the

youngest winner of the tear in a 110 years and the 1st from columbia well as his tradition he was unchallenged on the final stage of cycling's most famous race please just leave us is a little we're happy so happy it's unbelievable he's a 22 year old that rode on our same streets with the same friends and we're seeing him now wearing the yellow jersey arriving at the shops elisei it's astonishing it gives us goosebumps but i wasn't up we would meet him on the road but it was very difficult to stay behind maybe for one or 2 kilometers it's a real talent impossible to catch up with him the very special day for everybody here. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines at least 65 people have been killed in nigeria in a suspected boko haram attack on a funeral it happens near the northeastern city of my degree in borno state

president mohammed bihari has ordered a military operation to hunt time those responsible. a gunman has been shot dead by police after he killed 3 people at a food festival in the u.s. state of california. well it happens in the city of gilroy site of some francisco another 15 people are injured police say they're still looking for a potential 2nd suspect and they officers were in that area in engaged the suspect in less than a minute. the suspect was shot. and killed we have at least 15 people injured. we have 4 fatalities that we know of including the suspect. china's government says it still firmly supports chief executive kerry lamb's governance in hong kong following weeks of mass protests in

the territory it follows another night of street battles where police fired tear gas to disperse protesters near the building where china's representatives in the city work. the death toll after an explosion in the afghan capital has risen to 20 another 50 people including the president's running mates in the upcoming election were injured the interior ministry says the attackers were targeting an ruler sollars office in a busy part of campbell it came on the 1st day of official campaigning for the presidential votes. jailed russian opposition leader alexina volney has been taken to hospital with severe facial swelling and rashes after suffering what's believed to be an acute allergic reaction valmy who's an open critic of president putin was arrested on wednesday after calling for an authorised anti government demonstrations he was sentenced to 30 days in prison with a spokeswoman says he's in a stable condition but he's never suffered

a similar reaction before and the cause isn't known. well that's you up to date stay stay with us here on al-jazeera the use continuous after inside story. the faceoffs continue. and the last 20 democratic presidential candidates take to the stage for the 2nd us democratic debate. join us for coverage from detroit on july the facts here and 34 hours on al-jazeera. a record number of children dying in war and conflict the u.n. names and shane's those responsible in places like yemen and the palestinian territories the do the powers behind the bombs and the bullets actually care what needs to be done to protect the lives of children this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program i'm dennis them all kids are dying in wars and conflicts than ever before that's according to the united nations which is about to release its annual report on children and armed conflict out 0 has seen an advance copy a special u.n. representative found more than $24000.00 cases of children being killed maimed or forced to become child soldiers last year the report highlights rising casualties in war zones such as yemen where the saudi u.a.e. coalition is fighting huth the rebels and despite condemning israel for the deaths of palestinian children israel is not on the report's blacklist of offenders right let's have a look at some of those figures now the report says the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen is responsible for almost half of all child casualties in the

country last year 729 killed or injured out of a total of almost $1700.00 the who the rebels were black. named for $398.00 casualties and the yemeni government forces but blamed for $58.00 the un says israeli forces caused the deaths of $56.00 palestinian children and the wounding of almost $2700.00 now that's the highest number in 4 years and there syria airstrikes barrel bombs and cluster munitions killed or injured more than 1800 children and afghanistan tops the list for another year with more than 3000 child casualties. are either introduce our panel now in toronto by scott we have know her eldar hobb who

is a fellow at the brookings doha center specializing in conflict and transitional justice in beirut we have rami curie senior fellow at the is on fire is institute for public policy at the american university of beirut in lancaster in the u.k. also on skype simon mabel and senior lecturer in international studies at lancaster university while come to you all know her i've just i've just read out a litany of bad news affecting children around the world particularly in conflict areas why do you think we're seeing a larger number than ever before of children being killed or maimed in conflicts. well the short answer really is that there's a there's a lack of accountability for these for these violations and actually the bad news that you just mentioned is in reality much much worse than what is captured in in such u.n. reports i mean with regards to yemen for example the the the number of child casualties mentioned in these reports is only really

a glimpse into the extent of the atrocities the children suffer these casualties have to do with armed conflict in a very sort of narrow sense in the sense of ground fighting airstrikes unexploded ordinances and so on but really there are tens of thousands of children who are dying of starvation and of disease as a direct result of the armed conflict and so unfortunately these reports only really capture a very small parts of what is actually going on here that's even more gloomy as nature and rami do you agree with no have and that it is really as a consequence of of a failure of an international system of accountability. yes i agree fully with her and i would even go further because you have situations like in palestine and israel for instance where the conflict creates damage to schools children become displaced jobs are lost because of the siege on gaza normal economic activity can't

go on so the entire economic foundation of a society the palestinian society starts to crumble and families don't have an a full malnutrition increases stunting increases so there's a whole ripple effect of damage that's done to the physical and mental wellbeing of entire families not just the children and these these reports really capture just the surface manifestation of the worst battle casualties but the the depth of destruction is much worse and parallel to that is what you said at the beginning that there's no accountability the whole process of international law has collapsed in virtually most of the middle east because even have you know respectable governments like some like the u.a.e. in the saudis on the back of any isn't the egyptians and others who are doing terrible things to their people in jails to killing people after kangaroo trials you have countries like iraq and syria and parts of lebanon and other places where

terrible things are happening to people and there's just no real international accountability whatsoever because the all out warfare that has spread across the region essentially since the syrian war started 8 years ago has really and go for many many parts of the area and therefore law really finds no place trying to rear its head right in some in coming to you i'm looking at figures of this coming from as save the children report from earlier this year which says that 5 times more children than come buttons are actually killed in comfort i mean is the nature of conflict the way was a being forced is it changing in is that perhaps responsible for the increasing number of of children getting caught up. you know i think that's probably one of the reasons we know the conflict is getting more complex we know that battle

battlegrounds are changing traditionally they would be separate from urban areas and in recent years particularly post 911 in the middle east we've seen that they've become really really embedded within been areas so as conflict increases as conflict becomes more and more intractable it's going to have more and more of an impact on the lives of people living within those cities so i don't think it's particularly surprising that the conflict has become more complex it's become more embedded structurally within the political fabric of of a state and as a consequence it's having an absolutely devastating effect on the people that are most vulnerable living within those particular areas children the elderly the infirm people who are unable to flee these conflict zones and i think think what romney has just articulated about them and whole time mentions are incredibly important this rip this report this is hugely devastating in terms of the death and the casualties of children but there is of course

a much deeper mental die mention in terms of the amount of trauma that children have gone through the p.t.s.d. that they will experience through through living in that almost to years through a conflict so which will have an absolutely devastating impact on their lives right on the lights of those around them and so very very grim today but also incredibly grim for the future it would have been no how coming back to you. when we're talking about the changing nature of conflict we are not necessarily talking about state that is state where from talking about non-state actors a battling each of the civil war was localized into national intra national comfort and is this perhaps a contributing factor to the to this terrible scenario that when when. looking at today and that is not just of children but civilians being killed and injured

increasing the. yes i mean absolutely the the the the expanding sort of nature of non-state actors and their role in an armed conflict certainly complicates and worsens. the the the crimes committed in these conflicts but it also complicates this issue of holding non-state actors accountable and i should add that there's another very sort of important missing part of of these reports when you when you look at them you know you'll see countries such as sudan and you know the democratic republic of congo yemen syria etc listed and the parties to those conflicts named and shamed for for their role in the armed conflicts but the big missing part here is the role of western powers in particular whether it's the u.s. or the u.k. and their complicity and their support it's really been in the perpetration of

these crimes and since we're on the subject of non-state actors there's also this issue of course of these multinational corporations and their role in and their complicity in these crimes and so this is another sort of achilles' heel of these reports is that they don't really capture the the role of the stars and how powerful would it be if the u.k. and the u.s. and other such powers were named and shamed for their role in print and perpetrating these atrocities whether it's in syria area men or other well there are efforts to do that and there are efforts in the u.k. against the british government and indeed against in congress against the u.s. government ramey coming to you. i'm just wondering though how much of the concept of naming and shaming how how how. shane would a country be like for instance the saudi coalition in yemen which is named in this

report to be released by the un next week and how shamed would that coalition be to be on that to be publicly identified as being responsible for so much horror i mean do you think it really matters to them. what recent years suggests that it doesn't matter at all because what they would do is they would go to the white house announce a big new arms deal with the united states go to london announce a big new p.r. campaign with big pictures on busses maybe go buy a football team in paris and then they would be the best friends of the 2 major western powers and nothing else really matters to them this is one of the problems and heard them mention this the presence of the international players is really the terrible thing that's happened and this comes right out of the syrian war the syrian war was which is still going on it was really has been really a terrible historical turning point because what's happened in the last 8 years in

syria is we've ended up with coalitions of a major international power local government or 2 and non-state actors all working together in a fighting force on the ground so in russia you had russia the syrian government has below and various groups on the ground facing rebel groups the united states gulf supporters and sometimes turkey so these coalitions on both sides fighting each other you have the same thing in yemen and you have this now happening in every in libya you're starting to see it and there's direct not only direct involvement in western and russian and turkish another of iranian other foreign governments not just supplying arms and but they're actively fighting on the ground with their troops with their artillery units with their special forces and with their air forces it's quite an extraordinary situation of all out warfare all combining states non-state actors and foreign powers and there's nobody who can

do anything about this so the that's the long answer to your question which is that governments are not particularly shamed by being named the only thing that really matters to them as if there's some serious legal action that's taken to actually do . turn of the mind there's no sign of that unfortunate right simon it's often said isn't it that the world is pretty much dictated by interests how much political pressure would you say is is brought to bear upon the un itself for instance i mean this particular section of the un is the children and armed conflict section of the the un they report to the secretary general but the report is criticised insofar as it doesn't name and shame sufficiently it doesn't attribute blame as harshly or as clearly as it might in particular i'm thinking of the israeli defense forces

they highlighted having been responsible for a larger number of palestinian child deaths last year than have been in the last 4 years and yet they don't appear in the annex yet the list of bad is they don't appear there at 0 so how much pressure is the un under when it's compiling a report like this to actually keep a certain balance if you like in terms of other political interests i think that's a really important point and it really gets to the fundamental problem with all the un toadies all un agencies that they have to balance the sort of the impartiality and the interests of the particular body with broader chip political interests and so here you have a report that is trying to really get to the bottom of what's happening on the ground but it feels feels compelled to sort of cold but for fully naming and shaming the israeli defense forces the united states the united kingdom for their

complicity in events and i think that gets to this this fundamental power of balance and the structural organization of the united nations which means that the powerful states wield a great deal of disproportional influence across the united nations particularly in the security council and we see this of. in that the human rights council as well where there are particular human rights agendas that are suppressed by members of the council who are sitting on this council and don't want these to be articulated so it is power the troyan. normative concerns such as human rights such as children's interests right ok all right so simon raises an important point i think know her and empower in terms of the security council i suppose resides with the permanent 5 and there is pretty much paralysis isn't there in the security council but i mean the saudis again i mean they are allegedly responsible for dangling substantial amounts of money before the very eyes of the secretary general of the

un in order to ease their way few like through some potentially uncomfortable moments both on the un human rights council and also within the u.n. security council deliberations particularly on the war in yemen so money matters here of course unfortunately money does matter and it's not just saudi arabia that has that has put the secretary general under under pressure it's you know several other countries including the u.k. especially in the in the human rights council and so you know it's it's unfortunate that it seems over the last couple of years in particular that the secretary general is kind of caving into this pressure a little bit you see it in the language it's not it's not as strong as it should be in these reports and again we've we've spoken already about the lack of accountability the lack of enforcement any kind of enforcement measures following these reports but of course i mean in theory the u.n.

should not be caving into this pressure and should stand firm right and romney said oh are we saying are we saying that this the sea primacy of these interests if you like of the various powerful players internationally all collectively undermining what is also what is supposed to be a rules based international system there are laws that are supposed to protect children and civilians particularly in war but they seem to be ignored at the moment. yes that's true and i've been interacting a lot with various u.n. agencies on international. n.g.o.s working all over the middle east in the last year or 2 dealing with women and children and marginalized people and they're just scrambling around trying to figure out how do they minimize the deaths of young people rather than what they were doing 510 and 20 years ago which is to expand the well being of young people and the survival rate on the health and the immunization

rate and all that and there's just such an overwhelming need for services to deal with the simply keeping people alive especially 60000000 people 60 is 60000000 people in the arab world who need humanitarian aid simply to stay alive and and in decent shape biologically and this figure is going to is going to keep increasing so the situation really is one in which there is no sign of any action that is going to change the situation what we really need though and this is where there is still an opening and people do try it we've seen it in yemen we've seen it in other places you need vigorous political initiatives to try to end the conflicts if you end the war you end all of this suffering many of the parties who are fighting each other many of them have legitimate grievances not all of them but many of them do and if you address those legitimate grievances 0 in on the people on the ground get the foreign fighters and criminals and donors out and 0 in on the

conflict on the ground and find a resolution that satisfies everybody you can end some of these conflicts and therefore you and this cycle of increasing suffering and vulnerability the problem with some of the situations like they are israeli conflict is this is been going on for for 100 years we've had a 100 years of israeli colonize ation of arab land and it's still going on and there seems to be no. any in the world who is willing or able to do anything about this and some of these conflicts need much more effort than purely localized on the right side and which brings us i suppose to history and tradition and that is leadership has traditionally been provided by the united states has net said in the post war 2nd mode war era that seems to be. lacking should we say

and i'm do you think that it passes too simplistic to link the current situation we're in now would be seen to be going backwards in terms of moral principles and rule of law can we link the 2 ted to the fact that america has turned in let's push ups but i think there's probably more to it than maps and if we look at the conflicts and the impact of conflicts on children and and marginalized people across across the past few decades we'll see that that this is being continuing this is this is even increased whilst america has been more involved in the global stage and it. in actually articulating more liberal projects and the likes of bill clinton and barack obama this had a massive there was a massive increase in the number of people affected by by conflict and i think that obviously on the trumpet's had a marked impact on on america's role in the world and it's sort of step but most leadership position but it's not just about that there's

a complexity of conflicts that have bowled over the past few decades and the report talks about building sustainable peace but as rami suggesting that it's difficult to build that sustainable peace when there is conflict going on but the sustainable peace is essential to actually preventing future conflict of in future generations addressing longstanding grievances addressing longstanding needs for the food for shelter for water for basic human needs. it's not just about addressing the conflict and making people safe from war do we have to do more the u.n. has to do more in order to actually build this sustainable peace and it will require leadership from a range of different groups not just the united states team really flow into the space and these norms it will require a strong leadership frame from a range of different sectors that will hold each other to account but of course

this is incredibly idealistic and i don't see it any time soon i think and so no hurry it seems very much as though all right lee back to the u.n. we look to the u.n. to do so much particularly in a in a world that's devoid of of obvious national leadership the u.n. have started a process haven't they need yemen obviously this is described as perhaps the west humanitarian crisis in the world at the moment what do you think of the stockholm agreement as a beginning as a start to perhaps stopping that dreadful war in yemen i mean any sort of any agreement that's geared towards stopping lifting up blockade or stopping the fighting is of course very welcome i think there's been a lot of issues with with the stockholm agreement. you know one of them being that it's very very much focused on how data and has led to sort of this dismissal really of a focus on the rest of the country which is just as

a port and but i think just to follow on the discussion earlier. another sort of factor that is really important and an opening as rami called it is the role of civil society in these countries right the solution doesn't begin and end with the united nations the role of civil society to look at the role of civil society in syria for example birth course and all of these conflicts countries is absolutely crucial in but unfortunately it seems that more often than not. international organizations or international policymakers. don't have this as meaningful an engagement with the civil society accessors as they should and so the result is that there's sort of a delayed resolution to these conflicts working is local actors is is absolutely crucial to try and and bring bring an end to these armed conflicts right rami give

the last word to you and if you can make it brief please so know how offices a glimmer of hope and i'd like to end on that if possible she sees that there is potential perhaps in stimulating the civil societies role and participation in these processes and that could could help assassin a lot i've says absolutely right and it's not just civil society as such it's just all local people working together and their normal day to day life one of the things that i've been amazed that and not so surprising in my 50 years of covering the middle east as a as a journalist has been that in all of these conflict situations when you see local communities arabs and israelis arabs and turks iranians and saudis some news and she are as christians and muslims whoever it may be any 2 people who seem to be having a fight when you go to the local level they're living together they're going to school they're playing football they're creating businesses they know how to co-exist peacefully and this is really the one of the great unexplored areas of

peacemaking stability and national development that has to be looked at through civil society through political mediation and through other forms we know how to live peacefully and co-exist in this region if the big powers and some of the external actors and local criminal leaderships and the various countries stay out of this process and so this is really an area that we have to explore much more carefully and it does actually even in syria during the war you had local communities that made cease fires and got along really. well i don't know it's definitely an area for a lot of work thank you very much indeed a note of relative optimism thank you all very much indeed rami khouri in beirut simon maybe in lancaster and i will interrupt to thank you all very much indeed and thank you for watching the program you can see it again any time you like but again to the website al-jazeera dot com should you want more discussion in go to our facebook page facebook dot com for slash a.j. inside story and you can join the conversation on twitter liz at a.j.

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khaled i'm hala mohit see this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up. nigeria's army is ordered to hunt down gunman who killed at least 65 people at a funeral. a shooting at a us food festival weaves the way people dead police say a suspect has also been killed. also colombian champion the cycle a series made history after winning the tour de france. the chinese government has reiterated its support for hong kong's leader kerry land following weeks of mass protests that have regularly become violent beijing's top office on hong kong policy has been making rare public comments after another night of street battles in the city that spokesman says the demonstrations are no longer peaceful and are

a challenge to rule of law where the process began over changes to extradition laws but have grown into a wiser movement against hong kong's beijing government for more let's cross live to sarah clarke ame hong kong as sara who are if we learned from that rare press conference. well as you mentioned it is rare and it's believed to be the 1st time that this particular china's top policy officer hong kong macao fares has spoken on these protests some e.u. is even suggesting it's the 1st time since the handover that they've done a press conference of this sort on hong kong's of fears and what they've said this press conference went ahead about an hour ago and they've said the violent protests have far exceeded the scope tolerated by the chinese authorities they did fully support carolan which is interesting on the grounds that she's an embattled leader and she's under a lot of pressure here in hong kong based on a lack of action despite these protests which started 2 months ago china said it

will not allow hong kong to be used as a platform to undermind undermine its or 30 society will suffer this kind of chaos continues it did say china supports the extradition or being suspended which is the situation here in hong kong it will stick to the one country 2 systems policy interesting that was also asked by one of the reporters about whether or not china would deploy its army here in hong kong there are about 12 garrisons that are based here in hong kong and they said that they would stick to the law which in that north states that they would only be deployed if hong kong requests their assistance and at that stage at this stage they haven't been deployed or commissioned or requested to help despite the weeks of protests and violent confrontations we've seen here in hong kong but also how are the protesters likely to react to this was the elitists on the street there. well we had

a weekend of violent confrontations but we've got more strikes planned this week they're not pulling back we've got a strike tomorrow which is the m.t.r. strike that's the the mass transport system here which is hugely respected and hugely used by a lot of people here and this is going to be at the peak hour tomorrow morning and we've got another protest on wednesday it's a civil disobedience assembly and we've got another protest planned on friday saturday and sunday we've also had reports that the n.t. riot vehicles which were commissioned a few years ago during the occupy protests back in 2014 they may now be deployed earlier than expected now those that can be mobilized this week which is what the rumors are suggesting and that these these used water cannons of my use liquid dye on protesters which makes these protests as easy to identify and the wrists and now this all comes after a week in the weekend a violent clashes and confrontations we saw between the police and protesters which

ended around midnight on sunday night. since your home con was in chaos his place moved into k. tens of thousands of people rallying in the district. the demonstration began pace fully the situation quickly unraveled. despite numerous calls for police to disperse the protesters resisted instead they moved to the west and districts on hong kong island surrounding a major police station as well as the chinese government's representative office blockades was set up and place lines cordoned off the area protest is blocked some access points and targeted police try paint bombs glass and bricks any loose object they could get the hands on special place and the tactical response units moved in firing several rounds of tear gas in a bid to push the groups but. this is the 2nd not in a row where we've seen violent clashes between police and protesters place of blood

several rounds of t.v.'s and rubber bullets on the demonstrators that's a lot does demonstrate is refusing to let. the tense standoff went on for several hours but after midnight protesters were eventually face to retreat this rally began with tens of thousands marching in opposition to a proposed extradition bill that's now being shelves after months of rallies it's become a broader movement calling for greater democracy in hong kong some fear the situation will only escalate we won't give up under the law school we won't give up until the child was trying to attack us it is a massive discontent it is a massive arrest as a result of or government i don't think is going to happen unfortunately is heading towards. escalation of violence and i'm looking at possible.

to use or even if it can. a monday china's top policy adviser is expected to respond to the political crisis that's gripped the feel of a british territory for months the hong kong government and protesters refusing to budge this rally is unlikely to be the last sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. by gerry as army has been ordered to hunt down gunman who killed at least 65 people in the northeastern bora region the victims have been attending a funeral there's been no claim of responsibility but boko haram monday weibo armed groups regularly carry out attacks in this parts of the country priyanka gupta reports. these shad remains are what's left of what once was someone's home this village in northeast nigeria is now the scene of the worst attack on civilians in the region this year gunmen attacked mourners gathered for

a funeral on saturday in the battle that took them to yet images that you can to our. wonder if you will remain if you will. about it then they went after them this is. the villages have gathered again this time to remember the staggering number of lives lost in just one day plus another come here to condemn arjun said his sympathise with the palm of his on me all of my talents in pune are do is don't admit them to not appear those on media pomalyst they are deported to top it it does leave out of the last no one has claimed responsibility for the attack but the armed group is suspected to be behind saturday's carnage local government officials say abdullah just 44 boko haram ambush 2 weeks ago 11 fighters were killed. president mahmoud abbas hari has

ordered the air force and army to hunt down the attackers borno state is the epicenter of the armed rebellion by boko haram tens of thousands of people have been killed millions have been displaced after 10 years of violence boko her arm has been largely driven out of the areas they once held. but the attacks continue and this time. even funerals have not been spared priyanka al-jazeera who armitage is joins us know from could dinner in northwestern nigeria and military has been ordered to hunt down the perpetrators of that attack a fairly robust response then from nigeria's leadership. well basically. the president us who might have known has ordered the air force and the

security forces while thousands of soldiers i actually in the northeast supported by fighter jets and helicopters to fight the hahaha tremendous progress has been made sense to came to power when they chased our book out of many territories but time continues to adapt to situations like this the last ground but they have not lost the war completely we can continue to see such attacks of a long period of time any expert security expert will tell you that a symmetrical or fair dealing with a symmetrical warfare by conventional forces will be a very difficult battle and that's what's been facing the nigerian army as well as soldiers from the region from some room from child from the all affected by the 10 year old boy quote i'm insurgency the presidency is giving assurances that they are doing everything they can to deal with the problem but for people who have been

traumatized of a long period of time 10 years and then something was in may seem that the situation is over or the bad days are over and then but quite unpopular again for them it's difficult to deal with the living day by day through this mess that is unfolding in the northeast of nigeria. for a bail hearing of the leader of a shia group his followers have been nights on the streets demanding his release for marquis talents. well basically the the the bill hearing is going to take place in the building right behind me here and as you can see security is stepped up here and it's not only here when the approach all roads leading to this place are actually barricaded by the security forces the police in parked in riot gear have barricaded and stopped all detail of movement to this particular place now. will be brought to court any time from now

to be. so that he can hear his whether or not a judge is going to grant him bail now a lot of people are saying because of court ruling last week. chettle high court in the capital abuja said the government can go ahead and prescribe the islamic movement of nigeria and declared a terrorist organization some people. waiting to see whether or not he can be granted bail remember there was a high court that granted him bail when the federal government was charging him to court and eventually this particular bill hearing is actually in a case between el's exactly yes movement and the catalyst to the government while we're waiting to see if that will happen today ok thanks very much for bringing us the latest from the interest reporting from northwestern syria. yes police does a gunman after he killed 3 people as

a food festival in california. police in the city of gilroy south of san francisco are looking for.